Posted on 01/08/2017 3:29:53 AM PST by markomalley
TSA might let something like this through as opposed to actually wearing a vest:
http://bulletblocker.com/bullet-proof-backpack-shield.html
Some parents are buying these for their kids at school ... at least ‘center mass’ can be covered.
My HP Probook is aluminum.
You get what you pay for.
Thanks for that link!
Now you really got my brain juice going, i travel a fair bit, was in Oz last year and Hawaii and soon i’m traveling again for a certification course, i always travel with my 12 inch Samsung tablet, i have a padded case for it, bit larger, was made gorca laotop, i’m buying some ballistic panels to sew into it. Give me something of a shield.
You should have just wiped it .... like with a cloth.
You might want to ask William Tell and his son?
LOL
The Mythbusters tested this as few years back, and determined that the laptop battery is dense enough that it might stop birdshot at point-blank range. Anything bigger than that, and the laptop is basically transparent. The kid in this story must have caught a stray, glancing shot; I doubt a laptop would have protected him if he was deliberately targeted.
Correction: not a “kid.” The “school-based laptop” threw me. At 37, almost certainly a teacher.
You've got a potential business there... thanks for sharing Daniel.
Swordmaker is having a heart procedure today. He’s unavailable for comment. Pray for him.
Thanks I caught that shortly after I posted. Sent prayers right then.
That amount of resistance would seriously impede -- or totally stop -- a hollowpoint 9mm slug.
“Would a straight on shot penetrate a laptop?”
Yes.
“Recently I tried to destroy a hard drive with a hammer.
Amazing how tough they are, The type with a spinning disc.
The case was tough and the disc itself was really tough.
Best I could do is dent it.
I can see a hard drive stopping a soft / hollow point.”
Ever heard a drive shredded? Makes a lot of noise.
The only things I know about guns and bullets come from this website.
It seems some bullets would and some wouldn’t, according to the answers I’ve received.
A 9mm hollow point would or wouldn’t?
What the heck is a hollow point anyway? :)
Raoul X was my first thought when this story broke. Something had to wipe the Chicago kidnap/torture story off the news and this shooting was...just what the doctor ordered.
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